Name: The Siege of Veracruz (battle march) by Keith Otis Edwards Concert Band Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Volitant Music
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The Siege of Veracruz (battle march)
by Keith Otis Edwards Concert Band - Digital Sheet Music

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Title The Siege of Veracruz (battle march)

Artist Keith Otis Edwards

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Keith Otis Edwards

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 92

Arrangement Concert Band

Publisher Volitant Music

Level 4

Product ID 1178715

Genre Classical Video Game Patriotic 20th Century Romantic Period

Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

The Siege of Veracruz took place from March 9 to March 29, 1847, during the war between the U.S.A. and Mexico. On March 25, the Mexicans called for a cease-fire to discuss surrender terms. Mexican officials pleaded that the women and children be let out of the city, but heroic US General Winfield Scott refused, believing this to be a delaying tactic and kept up the artillery fire. After the surrender and occupation of Veracruz, US troops marched on to capture Mexico City. Accordingly, the coda of this march proudly waves our national banner. The Trio uses the old (18th-century?) folk song "Green Grow the Lilacs." Before writing this march, I had never heard the tune, but I wanted to use it because, despite it being a waltz, I'm amused by the apocryphal etymology of the epithet Gringo, which is said to have originated during the 1846-47 war when the Mexicans often heard the invading Yanqui soldiers singing that song -- "Green Grow the Lilacs."

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